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| La Seine au quai d'Austerlitz, d'après Guillaumin (1878) |
Paul Cézanne was born on the 19th of January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, France. He was the son of a hatter named Auguste Cézanne who later became a banker. The fact his father became a banker made it possible for Paul to paint and gave him financial security. In 1852 the family moved to Collége Bourbon (nowadays called Collége Mignet) where he became friends with Émile Zola and Baptistin Baille. Together they were known as "Les Trois Inséparables" (The 3 inseperables) and liked swimming, fishing, debating about art, reading works of Homerus and Vergillius and writing their own poems. In 1875 he went to the Free Municipal School Of Drawing in Aix-en-Provence where he was teached by Joseph Gibert who was a Spanish monk to learn drawing. Due to the fact that his father wanted Paul to take over the family banking business Cézanne & Cabassol he studied at the university of Aix-en-Provence to study case law. But he didn't like law and prefered drawing and writing poetry.
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| Mont Sainte-Victoire (1895) |
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| Portrait de l'artiste à la palette - Self portrait (1890) |
In 1857 he went to the Free Municipal School Of Drawing in Aix-en-Provence where he was teached by Joseph Gibert who was a Spanish monk to learn drawing. Due to the fact that his father wanted Paul to take over the family banking business Cézanne & Cabassol he studied at the university of Aix-en-Provence to study case law. But he didn't like law and prefered drawing and writing poetry. He won a second price for his figure drawing in 1959. That same year his father bought the Jas de Bouffan estate that would become Paulś home and workplace. With objections from his father Paul moved to Paris in 1861 pursuaded by his friend Émile Zola to continue his artistical development. He visited the Musée de Louvre where he copied work of Titiaan, Rubens and Michelangelo. He also visited the Académie Suisse, a studio where young artists could paint live models for a low monthly fee. There he met other artists like Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet en Auguste Renoir who would become well known painters of the Impressionism movement.
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| Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1969) |
In 1870 he moved to L'Estaque in the south of France to avoid military service and was impressed by the landscape of the mediterranean landscape. The he learned from Camille Pissarro to paint in a impressionistic manner.
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| Route de village, Auvers (1973) |
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| Les Pêcheurs (scène fantastique) (1975) |
In 1872 he moved back to Paris where he and his partner Hortense Fiquet had a son. Eventually, his father reconciled with his son and supported Paul's decision. After his father's death in 1886, Paul inherited 40,000 francs, which got him out of debt. Paul died on the 22th of October 1906 due to a pneumonia. In his last years he had depression and diabetes, which alienated him from his friends.
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| Les Grandes Baigneuses (1906) |
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| Les joueurs de cartes (1895) |
